IT WASN'T ALWAYS EASY. 🥴

My journey toward healing and embodiment has been anything but straightforward. By the time I was ten, I'd already experienced a lifetime's worth of upheaval and trauma. Later diagnosed with cPTSD, I faced the formidable task of bridging the vast divide between my cognitive mind and my sensate body. Therapy helped, but it was only a beginning that started to feel like a dead end. My body felt like an adversary, terrorizing me with paralyzing anxiety, crushing depression, and overwhelming fury.

THE TURNING POINT. 🌀 

My path to healing took a dramatic turn when I discovered the power of Somatic Experiencing. This therapeutic approach transformed my life, granting me agency and hope. It taught me the revolutionary act of befriending my own body, seeing it not as a separate entity but as an integral part of myself. Embracing my body as myself was a radical act of self-love that fueled my passion to learn more and to share this healing potential with others. Embodiment might be a buzzword, but it changes everything.

THINGS STARTED TO CLICK. ✨

Inspired, I enrolled back in school. As I deepened my understanding through graduate research in embodiment, I began to see the interconnections between my personal healing and broader collective needs. We all carry scars, and through embracing our bodies and our pain, we can all find a path to empowerment and freedom.

Drawing from my personal identities of priestess and witch, I started weaving the mystical and the practical—integrating ritual, magic, and a profound connection to the earth into my practice.

This fusion of science and spirit helped solidify my approach to healing: one that honors pleasure, desires, and the sacredness of the body. One that integrates a wisdom lineage much deeper than the Europatriarchal tradition we are all, by design, steeped in. 

Each step forward in my research and personal practice reinforced the transformative power of embracing our full selves, leading to a holistic method of healing that resonates on both personal and societal levels.

I asked myself, how can I share these discoveries, these blessings, in a metamorphic way?

SOMATIC SPELLS was born.